The Dead Father - (FSG Classics) by Donald Barthelme (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><i>The Dead Father </i>is a gargantuan half-dead, half-alive, part mechanical, wise, vain, powerful being who still has hopes for himself--even while he is being dragged by means of a cable toward a mysterious goal. In this extraordinary novel, marked by the imaginative use of language that influenced a generation of fiction writers, Donald Barthelme offered a glimpse into his fictional universe. As Donald Antrim writes in his introduction, Reading <i>The Dead Father</i>, one has the sense that its author enjoys an almost complete artistic freedom . . . a permission to reshape, misrepresent, or even ignore the world as we find it . . . Laughing along with its author, we escape anxiety and feel alive.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"The funniest and most effective things in <i>The Dead Father</i> are accomplished by language, by the writing itself . . . Essential reading." --<i>Jerome Klinkowitz, The New Republic</i> <p/>"Reading <i>The Dead Father</i>, one has the sense that its author enjoys an almost complete artistic freedom, . . . a permission to reshape, misrepresent, or even ignore the world as we find it . . . Laughing along with its author, we escape anxiety and feel alive." --<i>from the introduction by Donald Antrim</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Donald Barthelme </b>was one of the most influential American novelists of the 1970s and 1980s, bringing a unique postmodern voice to his novels, short stories, and essays. He died in 1989. <p/><b>Donald Antrim</b> is the author of three novels, including <i>The Verificationist</i>.</p>
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